Six schoolchildren from central Portugal, where this year one of the country’s worst ever forest fires killed dozens of people, are raising money by crowdfunding in order to sue 47 countries over 'failures to address climate change.'
Stating that global warming is ‘threatening their right to life,’ the children, four of whom are from Leiria, the area of central Portugal where the Pedrógão Grande fires claimed over 60 lives this summer, are being represented in Strasbourg by UK barristers.
Not unexpectedly, 
Portugal’s lawyers fiercely have opposed the new law that compels them to shop their clients, if suspected of money-laundering or being involved in the funding of terrorists.
The Lisbon Regional Council of the Bar Association, which represents half of total number of Portugal’s lawyers, is unanimous in its rejection of the new law.
One of the fishermen who went missing from the Alqueva reservoir on Sunday has been found. The second is still missing
The authorities resumed the search for the two fishermen on Monday morning after the fishermen’s disappearance was reported on Sunday afternoon.
The Algarve’s hotels association hopes the installation of defibrillators in many of its top sites will increase the image of safety for tourists when choosing their holiday destination.
Member hotels of the Association of Hotels and Tourist Enterprises of the Algarve (AHETA) will always have staff on duty who are trained in the use of the machine.
Portugal’s Minister of Defence is pushing ahead with upgrading the Armed Forces’ F-16 fighter aircraft with an €8.7 million spend on modernising their communications systems.
Many of the F-16s are nearing the end of their useful lives, they entered service in 1994, and the Airforce has 30 of these fighters left on its books.
Two men, out on a boat for an afternoon’s fishing, simply disappeared from sight and are feared drowned.
Another man, fishing from a boat in the same part of the Alqueva reservoir in the São Marcos do Campo area, said that one minute they were there and the next, they were gone.
Bitcoin is "a form of speculation", says Vítor Constâncio, the vice-president of the European Central Bank who considers the virtual currency not to be a currency at all, despite each Bitcoin being worth, at the end of last week, $3,600
Vítor Constâncio headed the Bank of Portugal for ten long years between 2000 and 2010 and was shuffled off to the ECB where his utterances, mercifully, have been few.
The Berardo Foundation has debts of €998 million as at the end of 2016. Almost all are medium to long-term bank borrowings.
The founder of the Foundation, Joe Berardo, holds 862 works of modern and contemporary art in a collection valued by Christie's at €316 million in 2007, rising to around €400 million today. This is the collection on display at the Museu Coleção Berardo in Belém, Lisbon.
